On October 1, 1946 the Nuremberg trials were over. Out of 24 Nazi high officials 22 received a verdict. Twelve were sentenced to hanging, three-- life imprisonment, four-- 10 to 20 years. Three were even acquitted of the charges. Adolf Hitler, Joseph Gebbels, Heinrich Himmler had committed suicide to avoid punishment...
Nuremberg trials marked the beginning of modern human rights law... The Turkish genocidaires had escaped punishment for the Armenian Genocide only because in 1915 the world was still devoid of the mechanism exemplified in International Criminal Tribunals set up post-World War II.
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